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Thursday, June 16, 2016

All The Missing Girls by Megan Miranda

Like the spellbinding psychological suspense in The Girl on the Train and Luckiest Girl Alive,
Megan Miranda’s novel is a nail-biting, breathtaking story about the
disappearances of two young women—a decade apart—told in reverse.

It’s
been ten years since Nicolette Farrell left her rural hometown after
her best friend, Corinne, disappeared from Cooley Ridge without a trace.
Back again to tie up loose ends and care for her ailing father, Nic is
soon plunged into a shocking drama that reawakens Corinne’s case and
breaks open old wounds long since stitched.

The decade-old
investigation focused on Nic, her brother Daniel, boyfriend Tyler, and
Corinne’s boyfriend Jackson. Since then, only Nic has left Cooley Ridge.
Daniel and his wife, Laura, are expecting a baby; Jackson works at the
town bar; and Tyler is dating Annaleise Carter, Nic’s younger neighbor
and the group’s alibi the night Corinne disappeared. Then, within days
of Nic’s return, Annaleise goes missing.

Told backwards—Day 15 to
Day 1—from the time Annaleise goes missing, Nic works to unravel the
truth about her younger neighbor’s disappearance, revealing shocking
truths about her friends, her family, and what really happened to
Corinne that night ten years ago.

Like nothing you’ve ever read before, All the Missing Girls
delivers in all the right ways. With twists and turns that lead down
dark alleys and dead ends, you may think you’re walking a familiar path,
but then Megan Miranda turns it all upside down and inside out and
leaves us wondering just how far we would be willing to go to protect
those we love. @goodreads

MY REVIEW:

5 STARS

I have to say the cover of this book is beautiful, at least to me! I
also think it makes a great background for a thriller book!

HOLY CRAP ON A CRACKER! THIS BOOK ROCKED!

Okay
at one point I forgot the blurb and thought I was losing what is left
of my mind. The book is going along from the beginning and then all of
the sudden (BAM) we are at a part that I don't remember getting to....
Then my little brain catches up that this book is written backwards. You
get a little bit in the beginning so you know what's going on and then
it starts backtracking. This would seem confusing but it's not! Every
little piece starts clicking right into place..click..click...click..

On with the story! EXCERPT

Missing
girls had a way of working their way into someone's head. You couldn't
help but see them in everyone--how temporary and fragile we might be.
One moment here, and the next, nothing more than a photo staring from a
storefront.

I
can not say enough how much this book is fan-freaking-tastic! I haven't
read a thriller this good in a long time. I had some ideas who the
killer was but nooooooooooooo.. just no.. I can't even.

Nicolette
(Nic) moved away from home in the Smokey Mtns. of North Carolina years
ago. She came back once but it's really just been 10 years, her best
friend Corinne went missing and some other stuff went down and she had
to go. She went to college and was working as a counselor and met a nice
man through her neighbor and they ending up being engaged at one point.
His name was Everett and he was a very nice lawyer. If he only knew
what he stepped into with this town.

So Nic gets a call from her
brother Daniel saying he wants her to come home because their dad is
getting worse and he wants to sell the house. The one other time she
went back they had put him in a home because of Dementia. He's in and
out of it and he's starting to say things. Things that make so sense. He
keeps saying he saw the girl and Nic is in danger. ?????

So Nic
is back and cleaning up the house. She talks to her old high school
flame, Tyler and has a weird sort of relationship with her brother
Daniel and his wife Laura. And Nic still has some feelings for Tyler and
I would say the feeling is mutual but he's dating Annaleise Carter. And
guess what? She goes missing. What? So now there are two girls from
this town that are missing and the town is stumped.

Meanwhile,
Nic's fiance comes to town and helps out by getting the cops to leave
Nic's dad alone. He's spouting out things about the missing girl from 10
years ago and other crazy talk. It's not really crazy though is it?
There is something locked in that brain of his and people think he was
just a drunk that fell into drinking and craziness after his wife died
and he only got worse. There are reasons for so many things.

I
do not want to say any more because I am afraid of giving out a spoiler.
Let me just say this book is not what you think it's going to be! It
threw me for a loop. I'm buying it when I can and reading it again. It's
so out there that I want to read it over and over. If you see any of
the stuff coming in this book before it's laid out for you then you are a
genius and kudos to you =)

The characters are complex and
wonderful. The whole atmosphere of the book is great. I loved every
little thing about the book, with the exception of their being a few
heart breaks included. But that's life.

I also know who killed these girls but I'm not telling you!

*I
would like to thank Netgalley and Simon & Schuster for inviting me
to read this wonderful book in exchange for my honest review.*